Recording drums and using triggers

[Angusdevil]

I posted this in Newbies cause I thought it would be a fairly quick answer but I guess not so I'm coming here to pick your brains.


I want to record my drummers set but he's not really happy with his bass drum sound. CAN get a good sound from the drum, but my drummer wants something thats doesn't even sound natural. I want to put a trigger on it. My question is, do I have to have a drum module to do this? I've hooked the trigger up on an audio track and noticed that it just has a spike when I hit the trigger. Is there a computer program that will recognize this "spike" and replace it with the sample? True, I could do it all by hand and it would be kind of a long process but I just wanted to know if something in a program could do it automatically.

I'm running off a P4 WinXP
2 Delta 66's
Allen & Heath Mixwizard 16:2
Sonar 2 XL
Adobe Audition

I'm new to the idea of triggers so any information would be great.

 

[Tim Brown]

Does Sonar work with a VST program?

If so, you could record the "spike" and use that to trigger a MIDI sound or a sample in the PC.

Generally, you have to have a module to use triggers, but sometimes (especially if you are recording on a PC!) there can be ways around it.


Tim

 

[noisedude]

Tell me some ways! I'm using Cubase VST 5.0 and my drummer just bought a 2nd hand Fruity Loops although neither of us has looked at it yet!

I'm using a Delta 44 card but do have a Midi port on my onboard card if that's needed ... We'd like to program the bass and snare parts and add the rest in realtime, mainly due to a lack of good mics and rooms. So can we make a sample and trigger it? I can make a DIY trigger if need be but I'd need to know what to do with it afterwards.